RE: SW newbie

Hello all,

> An ontology is a system to organise things. Like "Trees are plants"
> "Frogs are animals" "Dogs are mammals" "Mammals are animals" 
> -> "Dog is an animal"
> etc.

That's a somewhat simplistic view of an ontology. What you described matches
the definition of a taxonomy, which is considered one of the "simplest
ontology" sorts available.
An ontology is a formal definition of your concepts, terms and rules of your
modeled world. Languages to describe an ontology like OWL help enforce
business rules for instance.

Rodrigo

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leo Sauermann [mailto:leo@gnowsis.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 10:18 AM
> To: 'sandy lub'; www-rdf-interest@w3.org
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am also writing my master right now,
> 
> 
> At which university are you ?
> 
> 
> If you are interested in acutal research topics, search for 
> Dieter Fensel, he does hundreds of master's thesis.
> somewhere on these sites i found a list of hundreds of 
> Semantic Web diploma thesis, you have to search 
> http://www.nextwebgeneration.org/projects.html
> http://informatik.uibk.ac.at/informatik/index.html
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > 2, what kind of basic knowledge i should have
> The most important articles from W3C:
> http://www.w3.org/RDF/
> http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-primer/
> http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-schema/
> 
> > 3, where i can get some basic tutorial or journal material from.
> see above.
> 
> Then download JENA:
> http://www.hpl.hp.com/semweb/jena.htm
> 
> And, if you have windows,
> RDFGateway, Student evaluation (you may mail there) 
> http://www.intellidimension.com/
> 
> Then try to know what RSS is and program a simple tool using 
> Jena and RDFGateway that does download a RSS stream and shows 
> it on some website or whatever.
> 
> This should be a good tutorial, it will take you at least two days.
> 
> > and one specific questions
> > what relates Ontology to Semantic Web? what is the relationship
> between 
> > Ontology and >> Semantic Web.
> 
> An ontology is a system to organise things. Like "Trees are plants"
> "Frogs are animals" "Dogs are mammals" "Mammals are animals" 
> -> "Dog is an animal"
> etc.
> 
> You use ontologies to describe what resources you have in a 
> system and how they might relate. Then the individual 
> resources are connected to the ontology, like "Benno is a dog".
> 
> For example,
> FOAF is an ontology:
> http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/
> http://www.foaf-project.org/
> 
> 
> greetings
> Leo Sauermann
> www.gnowsis.com
>

Received on Thursday, 30 October 2003 05:44:16 UTC